Morgan Aitken-Young, a 17-year-old resident of Fremont, California, won first place in the national Young Voices Foundation Short Story Contest with “Unequal,” a moving piece about life as the daughter of lesbian moms. The Palo Alto Daily News has more.
Her piece is more than a personal essay, however. She fictionalizes it so she can show the effects of homophobia on the protagonist and her lesbian friends throughout their lives, and does so with a maturity and command of dialogue that put many older writers to shame.
Another worthy read for today. If you have teens yourself, they may enjoy it, too. It is available as an MS Word doc on the Young Voices Foundation site.
